12. Haman said, “Furthermore, Queen Esther invited only me to accompany the king to the banquet that she prepared! And also tomorrow I am invited along with the king.
13. Yet all of this fails to satisfy me so long as I have to see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
14. Haman’s wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows seventy-five feet high built, and in the morning tell the king that Mordecai should be hanged on it. Then go with the king to the banquet contented.”It seemed like a good idea to Haman, so he had the gallows built.